On Jul. 30, 2015, Baylor Cancer Center received comprehensive designation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The Center…
On Jul. 10, 2015, the UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center became an National…
On Jul. 7, 2015, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded the Siteman Cancer Center​ at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and…
On Jun. 24, 2015, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) announced it had met Nike co-founder Phil Knight…
On Mar. 25, 2015, the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center was designated a Cancer Center of Excellence by the…
On Feb. 23, 2015, a bankruptcy judge approved the sale of the assets of Dendreon Corp., a Seattle-based…
In 2015, Yale Cancer Center was awarded a SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) grant for translational research…
On Dec. 3, 2014, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center…
On Nov. 5, 2014, the Ford Family Foundation announced a $5 million grant to the Knight Cancer Institute…
On Sept. 8, 2014, the University of Washington and UW Medicine announced that Mary-Claire King, UW professor of…
On Aug. 21, 2014, Mark McAndrew, a resident of McKinney, Texas, gave $2.4 million to the University of…
On Aug. 14. 2014, Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Avastin (bevacizumab)…
On Jul. 28, 2014, OHSU announced it has received a $100 million gift from an unnamed donor who…
On Jul. 1, 2014, Genentech entered into an agreement to acquire Seragon Pharmaceuticals, a privately held biotechnology company…
On Jun. 30, 2014, leaders from Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals announced that Char and Chuck…
On Jun. 26, 2014, OHSU announced completion of the Collaborative Life Sciences Building and Skourtes Tower, a next-generation…
On Jun. 18, 2014, Columbia Sportswear President and CEO Tim Boyle and his wife, Mary, announced a donation…
On Apr. 7, 2014, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced that the Bezos family had committed $20…
On Jan. 29, 2014, NYU Langone Medical Center announced it had received an initial gift in excess of…
On Dec. 19, 2013, the Siteman Cancer Center debuted the first single-vault proton therapy center in the U.S.:…
On Nov. 13, 2013, Genentech announced that it’s drug Gazyva (obinutuzumab) was approved by the U.S. Food and…
On Oct. 30, 2013, the Karmanos Cancer Institute and McLaren Health Care signed an agreement that created the…
On Sept. 21, 2013, philanthropists Phil and Penny Knight pledged $500 million to kick-start a $1 billion cancer…
On Jul. 12, 2013. the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center (MCC) was joined by national, state and…
On Jun. 7, 2013, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved renaming the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center…
On May 8, 2013, was the first World Ovarian Cancer Day. On this day, ovarian cancer organizations from…
On Feb. 22, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced they had approved Genentech’s licensed ado-trastuzumab…
On Sept. 28, 2012, the Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Clinic opened at Yale Cancer Center providing — the first…
On Jul. 12, 2012 the University of Kansas Cancer Center earned National Cancer Institute designation. Through efforts initially…
On Jun. 8, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Genentech’s drug Perjeta (pertuzumab) was…